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Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The Signet Classic Shakespeare series contains the preeminent mass market books of the complete works of Shakespeare. This reissue features a new Overview by Sylvan Barnet, former chairman of the English Department at Tufts University, an updated Bibliography, suggested references, and stage and film history.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: When his daughter, Becky, becomes ill from bacterial poisoning, Dr. Kim Reggis, a cardiac surgeon, is determined to track down the cause, no matter what the cost.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: A roaring lion, a braying zebra, a trumpeting elephant, a bellowing walrus and many more parade across the pages of this picture book. It is a companion volume to Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Eric Carle is the author/illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 569 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 309) Аннотация: The bestselling author of Practical Magic and Turtle Moon now tells her most seductive and mesmerizing story. After nineteen years in California, March Murray returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up. For all this time, March has been avoiding her own troubled history, but when she encounters Hollis — the boy she loved so desperately, the man who has never forgotten her — the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 656 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 326) Аннотация: Futuristic cop Eve Dallas is back on the job. This time it's Christmas in New York, and all the lonely hearts are easy pickings for a serial killer spreading death through a dating service.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The halls are decked, the tree is trimmed, and one young boy is wide awake and watching for a special late-night visitor. But waiting isn't easy — especially when every little noise sounds like Santa! Includes 24 flash cards. Full color.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The field of language is one which abounds with folk myths, misconceptions about the way in which language works or is used. This book tackles these folk beliefs head on in a series of entertaining and informative chapters in which a variety of linguists look at and correct a catalogue of errors, such as: aborigines speak a primitive language; French people speak faster; German is ugly; Italian…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The greatest works of comedy from the Bard, this book features «The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night» and «The Tempest».
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Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Since its publication twenty years ago, J. M. Roberts's monumental History of the World has remained the unrivaled World History of our day (A.J.P. Taylor), selling more than a quarter of a million copies worldwide. Now in an equally masterful performance, Roberts displays his consummate skills of exposition in telling the tale of the European continent, from its Neolithic origins and early…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Draw me a star. And the artist drew a star. It was a good star. Draw me a sun, said the star. And the artist drew a sun. And on the artist draws, bringing the world to life picture by beautiful picture until he is spirited across the night sky by a star that shines on all he has made. In Draw Me a Star, Eric Carle celebrates the imagination in all of us with a beguiling story about a young artist…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Rosie Parker is no more than a child when her mother dies during the war. Left to the less-than-tender mercies of her father Cole and her brutish step-brothers Seth and Norman, she sees the arrival of housekeeper Heather Farley as a possible replacement mother and her salvation. But when Thomas Farley comes looking for his sister several years later, he discovers Heather has left the Parkers in…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: A story of love, war, loyalty and betrayal, «Excalibur» begins with the failure of Lancelot's rebellion and the ruin of Arthur's marriage to Guinevere. The Saxons, sensing the disunity of the Britons, seize the chance to destroy Arthur. The climax of the war comes with the legendary triumph at Mount Badon, and Arthur's great victory. But the promises he made then come back to haunt him after the…
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